I'm Lystrialle and I'm a folk/neofolk producer who uses #VOCALOID and sometimes #UTAU
(but really, I'm up for anything)!
I mostly make songs in English, often with #MEIKO and #KAITO, and I also put out an album earlier this year! https://lystrialle.bandcamp.com/album/you-in-the-endless-starlight
And here's the most recent song I posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwChVmTNQV0
Oh, I guess I'm also a web admin for VocaLounge now 😊
Current household #vocastock
Amy, Chris, Kaori, Ken, VY1, VY2, Cyber Diva, CYBER Songman
VY1, Kagamine Rin/Len (Japanese/English), Nekomura Iroha (Natural/Soft), Ruby, Dex, Daina, UNI
VY1, Mew, VY2, Avanna, Merli, MAYU, MEIKO, KAITO, SeeU
MIRIAM, KAITO, MEIKO
And of course I have my own , Hana https://utau.stella-azurea.com/hana/profile/
Every time one of these strange op-eds comes out it's amazing to me how they love to analyze and speak for us without actually, you know, asking about it.
(Or, as testimony has indicated, they do, and then throw it out because it makes for uninteresting headlines.)
There's no punchline to this story, it's just something I've been thinking about a lot, in terms of how relative "nostalgia" and "everyone from our generation knows that!" is depending on your background and where you come from...
...a song that was completely alien to her.
And, naturally, I think if the average American person from that generation were to visit Japan, they'd probably have the opposite feeling (since I don't think people here generally know Aim to be a Pokémon Master! unless they're knee deep in anipoke).
But now that she was visiting the US, one thing she was having difficulty swallowing was that absolutely nobody understood it, and even though *technically* people knew the same series, that song meant nothing to them and nobody had heard of it.
Of course, this being the US, if you want to talk about "the original anime series theme song", the words you say are "I wanna be the very best..." which is recognizable to everyone and will get everyone to follow up and sing along...
And, more specifically, the topic turned to "the original (anime) series", and she talked about something very surreal to her: for her and everyone she knows, if you go "itsumo itsudemo umaku yuku nante~", *everyone* will know it. It's part of their childhoods.
(The Harbor of Drifting Blue is getting added once everything is successfully shipped out and closed, so that's why it's not there yet.)
Possibly a bit overdue, but I added a project management page to my portfolio. It's still rather small but I hope to add more to it soon 😊
https://stella-azurea.com/works/projects/
One of the things I've found to be most valuable when producing things (be it collab projects or whatnot) is "paying attention to things". That means looking into and studying anything I like or find to be interesting, even if I don't particularly have an idea to use it for yet. That means observing what other people do in any collab project I'm on, or even just inspecting and studying anything I've bought and liked to see what worked for them (and what could be useful for later).
But the word was loanworded into Korean, and most of my early childhood experience was at Korean karaoke bars, and so I reflexively use the Japanese-style ka-ra-o-ke pronunciation, which throws other people off and gets me weird looks. Trust me, I *hate* the fact I do this 😅
Anyone who's met me at a con and heard me mention Vocaloid names has heard me do this, but it's a byproduct of a lot of factors, including the fact I'm Korean-American, so I grew up with the phonetic inventory, plus the fact I'm a linguistics major, and took Japanese in classroom settings that forced us to speak often, and tend to play games and watch anime with Japanese audio so the intonation sticks with me, plus especially with Korean, affecting an American accent *feels* wrong 😅
Hobbyist folk/neofolk composer and lyricist. Also a language and linguistics enthusiast. VocaLounge web admin. Member of @Myriad.
This account is for vocalsynth-centric content/interaction and VocaLounge management. Main account (including general music discussion) can be found at @Lystrialle. Relevant posts will be boosted between each account.
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